In Nigeria, gunmen assassinate worshippers during a church session.
According to local media, gunmen opened fire on attendees and detonated explosives at the Nigerian church.
On Sunday, gunmen opened fire on a Catholic church in Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, killing many people, according to local media.
"Several worshippers were brought in dead," a doctor at a hospital in Owo, a town in the state in Nigeria's southwest, told Reuters.
"There was an incident today at the Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo," Funmilayo Ibukun Odunlami, a police spokeswoman for Ondo state, said, adding that authorities would publish a statement soon.
Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at the church, according to local media.
Africa’s most populous country has witnessed attacks and kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs, mostly in its northwest. Such attacks are rare in southwestern Nigeria.
Ondo state governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu said he was heading back to the state from the capital Abuja after the “unprovoked attack and killing of innocent people of Owo.”
“We shall commit every available resource to hunt down these assailants and make them pay,” he said in a statement
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